since all i've been doing

is watching 'sex & the city'

i thought i would remind myself of my REASONS FOR BEING ALIVE OTHER THAN TELEVISION:

1. desire
2. days like today when the sun is shining & the air is warm & it seems like nothing could go wrong.
3. a.m. coffee
4. walking. really far.
5. imagination. hope.
6. really good friends who just understand
7. laughing (that's silly, maybe, but so true)
8. the great lakes
9. train rides
10. fishing
11. reading a good book, yes, a good book
12. kitchens & everything that happens in them
13. trillium, briefly, bogs, fens, swamps, fiddlehead ferns--liminal spaces & transient things
14. being fully aware of oneself in the present moment
15. sleeping,
16. birds
17. really, really good long runs.
18. hot tea, a good meal, breakfast
19. legos, play-doh, playing house, making blanket forts, lincoln logs, potions, swingsets, slides, hide & seek, freeze tag, story time, marbles, dominoes, card houses, chutes & ladders, candy land, puzzles
20. sincere, offhand compliments (making & taking)